[Umfuld]

Thanks for your thoughts, Joea. Yes, I am a bit abusive. But I'm having trouble understanding why my use of the word bigot is ruffling so many feathers.
I do not have problems with people disagreeing with me. But I am passionate about putting people in their place if their goal is to infringe on others rights. Nothing upsets me more than this, and as I indicated with my first post on this thread, I was seriously offended.
My use of the word bigot on this thread was never intended as in insult or to be hurtful. As silly as it may sound, I do hold out hope that the people who've argued against gay marriage on this thread will see themselves in a different manner after discusssing the matter with me.
I am quite aware that bigots never think of themselves as bigots, and it was my intention to inform them that they, in fact, are.

Not simply because they disagree with me. But because they couldn't come up with a reason to support their ideas. At first, it was about children somehow. When I gave them a simple yes or no question to dismiss their logic, they ALL ignored that question.
Now their argument is some sort of circular nonsense about dictionary definitions. And that isn't a valid point. Leaving me to the only conclusion available. They don't like gay people. And no matter how much they deny it, think of gay people as something other than human beings with the same rights as they have.


I'm not sure what you mean by a swipe a college. I made no swipe at college. I realize that you need at least GED to go to college (I mean, I think that's true), but my comment about the GED was in regards to the GED on it's own. I held many jobs before I retired, and everyone one of them required at least a GED. But in reality not once did my lack of one stop me from getting a job. This is how my 'useless' comment was intended. Sorry if it was unclear, but understand that I was responding to a post that was just trying to insult me. And I was only too happy to let that person know they'd actually given me a great compliment.